Career
Her next novel, Eleven Hours, is due for publication in May 2016. Erens has also written essays and critical articles for publications such as The New York Times, Vogue, Elle, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Los Angeles Review of Books. Pamela Erens was brought up in Chicago.
Her mother Patricia lectured on film at Rosary College and her father was an attorney.
Erens was educated at the Latin School of Chicago, and had a novel published at the age of 14 entitled Fight for Freedom: A Slave Girl"s Escape. lieutenant was written when she was 10.
lieutenant concerned the escape to the North of an Arkansas slave girl, accompanied by Harriet Tubman. She went on to study at Philips Exeter Academy and Yale University.
Erens has been a fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers" Conference and the Sewanee Writers" Conference.
Foreign many years she was an editor at Glamour magazine. She lives in Maplewood, New Jersey.
